VOICES: What do you want the candidates to be talking about as they compete for your votes?

3:48AM Apr 4, 2024

Speakers:

Vince Outlaw

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City Times Media is compiling a City College Community Agenda of issues that the community would like to hear political candidates talk about as they compete for the community's votes. City Times Media will use the City College Community Agenda to raise these issues to the candidates and to report to the community what the candidates say.

What's your first and last name? John Stoveken. Isaac Garcia.

Elijah Elenes. Yuly Mendez. Your name? Tristan.

You live in the area of City College, correct? Right across the street here, catty corner from the campus.

Yes, great. Are you a student here at City College? I work here. What is your position? I work for facilities.

And what's your major? Mechanical engineering, bioengineering.

You're students at San Diego High School.

Seniors at San Diego High School.

What are the issues that you would like to hear candidates talk about as they compete for your votes in this election year?

Pro choice, environment. Help deal with the homeless around here. It impacts our daily work. You know, we have a lot of homeless people around the city that come into the college and wonder about to leave their trash make it difficult. I guess for us as workers, because it's too high. It's expensive. We cannot afford it.

I guess immigration policy. That would be my biggest concern that the they talk about. I believe that there should be immigration reform, to allow anybody with indigenous American descent or DNA to get a pathway to citizenship.

Housing. We deal with like the homeless. How steep of an entry it is for first time homeowners, so affordable housing. We see so many homeless people and especially now after like the flooding, people not really being able to be accommodated. How we deal with like affordable housing, how they plan to to deal with that, right? What he said. The homeless and also like to groceries guys the rent that we have to pay, because rent keeps going up and I don't really know. You know how much it's going to be in a few years or if we can even afford it.

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